Alan Mittelstaedt

No one on the governing board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had the courage to tell it like it is to the warring factions that showed up Thursday to push their pet transit projects. The message to the people who want to extend the Gold Line to mars, via Ontario......

THE IRANIAN-AMERICAN PUNK who provoked — yes, provoked — the taser attack at UCLA should be expelled for momentarily distracting the entire world from more meaningful thoughts. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a.k.a. Mad Mr. T-14 for short, is a U.S. citizen — so we can only boot him out of school. But......

SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA WONDER if L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo forgot to wear his helmet during his days playing safety on Harvard’s football team. Sure, like any halfway decent lawyer, he can probably write a plausible brief arguing that hospitals are breaking some law, somehow, when they drive recently discharged......

NOW THAT PHIL ANGELIDES has finally been shoved off the bus, it’s time to jump-start the 2010 gubernatorial race, starring L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. We sure hope Mayor V. isn’t banking on a quick turnaround of L.A.’s abysmal public schools in the campaign cycle to propel him to the governor’s......

L.A. City Measures: PROPOSITION H: The campaign for Proposition H is about housing — as in, $1 billion worth of affordable-housing initiatives planned for the next 10 years. The home-building industry signed onto the housing bond last year as a way to keep the City Council from approving a plan......

HEY, RON “PARTY-BOY BILLIONAIRE” Burkle, Democratic fat cat who flies President Clinton around in your own Boeing 757, you oughta write a book. We don’t care what the fired New York Post Page Six columnist Jared Stern says about you or the videotaped shakedown that went down in your Manhattan......

MAYBE GEORGE WELLER should have been an L.A. County supervisor. The befuddled 86-year-old, who is as qualified to be behind the wheel as subway-derailer Henry Waxman would be running L.A.’s transit programs, was convicted last week of gross negligence and felony manslaughter after he hit the gas instead of the......

EARTH TO MEL GIBSON: If you are serious about seeking full redemption for the anti-Jew, I-own-Malibu tirade that you spewed out when L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee arrested you for drunken driving on July 28, call the Sheriff to the Stars, a.k.a. Lee Baca. Tell him to call off......